A leading Palestinian-American has called on the United States to negotiate with Hamas the same way they negotiated with Sinn Fein.

Israeli officials forged the Irish passports used in the murder of a top Hamas operative, it has been revealed.

The killers of a top Hamas leader in Dubai last month used four more European passports to move around, and two of the four new passports discovered were Irish, according to a daily newspaper in Israel.

The Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheal Martin, has been told by his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, that Leiberman has no information about Israeli involvement in the killing of a Palestinian Hamas official in Dubai last month.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has revealed that two out of the three fake Irish passports used by a Mossad hit squad contained real passport numbers.

The president of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, has refused to heed Israeli demands that he not meet with Hamas officials when he visits the Middle East next week.